Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970) was a highly influential Swedish-American illustrator and animator known for shaping the visual world of fantasy literature and early American animation. Born in Sweden, he moved to the United States in 1920, where his artistic career truly took off.
Tenggren is most famous for his work as a chief illustrator and art director at The Walt Disney Company during the late 1930s, a period often called the Golden Age of American animation. His moody, atmospheric style, rooted in Nordic folklore and his own childhood memories of dense Swedish forests, had a profound visual impact on classic films like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and his best-known work for Pinocchio.
After leaving Disney in 1939, Tenggren returned to illustrating children’s books, creating many popular titles under his own name, including the perennial classic, The Poky Little Puppy. Through his enchanting blend of Nordic myth and American fantasy, Gustaf Tenggren left behind a visual legacy that continues to shape how generations dream of fairy tales and their worlds.
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| Violin Player, circa 1915 |
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| Grimm's Fairy Tales, Cinderella, 1919 |
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| Grimm's Fairy Tales, Snow White, 1919 |
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| Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Six Swans, 1919 |
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| Grimm's Fairy Tales, Tinkerbell, 1919 |
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| Giants, 1920 |
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| Ogres, 1920 |
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| D'Aulnoy's Fairy Tailes, 1923 |
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| Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1923 |
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| Grimm's Fairy Tales, Scissors, 1923 |
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| D'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Princess and Fairies, 1923 |
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| Trolls in the Snow, circa 1923 |
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| The Siren of the Woods is luring a Lapland-boy, Sven The Wise and Svea The Kind by Alicia O'Reardon Overbeck, 1932 |
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| Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 |
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| Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 |
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| Wicked Queen and Magic Mirror, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937 |
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| Pinocchio, 1940 |
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| Rapunzel, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Boots, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Cinderella, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Crone, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Jack and the Giant, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, King, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Ogres, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Pied Piper, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Princess, 1942 |
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| The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book, Sleeping, 1942 |
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